(ANSA) - Novara, May 3 - A woman visiting a post office in the northwest city of Novara could receive a 500-euro-fine for wearing a burqa after she was stopped by police under new local rules. The foreign-born woman was swiftly identified by police but she is still eligible for a penalty under a city ordinance that took effect in January. The new regulation prohibits any clothing that prevents the immediate identification of the wearer inside public buildings, schools and hospitals. The city police said the woman was stopped during a series of spot checks.

"The ordinance is being applied in the instant case because the woman was inside the post office at the time, which is a public building," said police chief Paolo Cortese.

The maximum fine for violating the ordinance is 500 euros but Cortese said his office was still assessing the circumstances of the incident and an appropriate penalty.

I do not know, but if you want to cover your face, or be like one with a mask, there is no way one can recognize or possibly describe you AND all the indoor to outdoor cameras possibly catching the masked person is so important to the Police of that area & YES many citizens have recognized the unmasked person that made a store robbery though what they see on the TV & question by the RCMP.

So in my mind the law is the law & if you like the town or city or land then you go by the laws, even when changed, if if not to your liking then you find some other place. Sorry but that is my belief & my feeling. I say this in the fact that my face is not covered or with a mask on it & I am overly-strong on the present laws in Canada to yes as much as I did NOT like Bill C-68 regarding f/arms but accepted it & even though some 15 yrs old I am STILL telling members they MUST have a Possession & Acquisition License to an Allowance to Transport your guns to the range to also pointing out without the ATT let alone the valid PAL you cannot shoot on our range for our compulsory insurance is THAT strict to also our insurance one is covered if even falling down a set of stairs or twisting an ankle where some of the Club members will be helping some others such a fly fishermen even out of our range.

True some of them hate my guts when I point this out to them, but once they have the PAL to the ATT they soon become fully in agreement with it & KNOW that every year or every 2 yrs they will have to renew the ATT while every 5 yrs one has to renew the PAL.

Some on other parts of Canada to even my area simply ignore the ATT t o even the PAL & after a while the RCMP have the right to confinscate their f/arms for life & have them destroyed. So you HAVE TO LEARN TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY even if you do NOT like the rukes & regulations.

Premier plans showdown with Speaker's groupBerlusconi wants to see if rebel MPs still support government 06 August, 19:06

(ANSA) - Rome, August 6 - Premier Silvio Berlusconi plans to force a group of breakaway MPs from his People of Freedom (PdL) party to show if they still support his government when parliament reconvenes in September, and resign if they don't, PdL House Whip Fabrizio Cicchitto said on Friday.

The government is "sailing without a compass" following Berlusconi's break last week with PdL co-founder, House Speaker Gianfranco Fini, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said earlier this week.

Don't give staff too many ideas about how to cut corners on work, especially on the last day. The postal worker was still under regulations (applicable laws for his job) on his work day. Is there any politician willing to make a platform that encourages pride and delivery of service in public positions?

Teach postman lesson: instruct delivery person on that man's street to drop his mail into puddles or wet grass for 1 week. Enough soggy or dirty mail to get message: treat others as you want treatment.

France has some major issues right now but Italy isn't far behind. Their biggest problem is garbage and for the tourists it's finding a mask to cover the stench. It's so nasty in Naples that the EU is telling them to clean up their act. You know your in trouble when the rats are the size of raccoons and the raccoons are the size of a pony.

Turn it up, turn it up, little bit higher radioTurn it up, turn it up, so you know, radio

Naples got in the news for garbage before. One summer was a stinky one over sanititation issues and the impacts were many. Wait a sec-the European Union's got a take on an Italian issue? What is the Italian government doing about a city matter?

Trash crisis: Berlusconi urges Neapolitans to get recyclingGovernment plans will work with local help, says premier05 November, 17:55

(ANSA) - Rome, November 5 - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi urged Neapolitans to start recycling to help solve their city's trash crisis Friday and said government plans for Naples refuse problems will work if local authorities do their bit.

ANSA has an Italian headliner article that did not make it to the English version of the paper. It's about students protesting some change to schooling or a law. I have a translation done online for Speak-Ez readers to follow:

A.it > Report > News Students, crashs to Rome Loaded with the policeAssaulted two armored, stone launch and bottles Berlusconi: true students to house to study30 November, 16:51ROME - “Fermatevi” and we will ask “it paralyzing the country with our initiatives”. With this outcry of battle students, investigators and dottorandi they are giving to life in all the Italian cities to spontaneous cortei that have the scope to block to traffic and activity. A day of chaos in order to make to feel their voice and to ask once again the Parliament to block the approval of ddl the Gelmini that today goes in classroom.

“In these weeks - law in a famous one of the Udu, the Union of the university hundreds of initiatives of dispute against the Reform of the university has been multiplied in turn for the country, occupations of the faculties, of the roofs, blocks of the traffic, cortei, occupation of main monuments of our country. Initiatives that had a single demand: to block the DDL and to save the public university from its dead women”.

BERLUSCONI, GOOD REFORM MUST PASS. TRUE STUDENTS TO STUDY - '' That in Parliament is a good reform that favors the students, the university professors and piu' in general terms all the academic world and therefore must pass if we want to finally modernize the universita' ''. Silvio Berlusconi, speaking with the HANDLE to its I re-enter to Grazioli Palace, defends to sword draft the provision elaborated from the minister Mariastella Gelmini. “The true students are to house to study, those in turn to protest are of the social centers and are outside run”, have then commented the prime Minister.

BOXWOODS, STUDENTS HAVE REASONS BUT NOT INSTRUMENTALIZATION - the students “partially have also some reason but they do not have themselves to be made to instrumentalize”. The leader of the Umberto Alloy has said Boxwoods interpellato to the Room on the protests of the students and after to have at first shaken the head. “The Alloy - it adds in fact - has not said its young people to go in public square”. “The important - evidence the leader of the Alloy - is that they are not made to drag too much from some political part: it has already happened in past. Then we have people that do not prepare themselves. The students would have in the first place to study”.

ROME: CRASHS AND CHARGES IN VIA OF the COURSE - Crashs between students and police enforcements in via of the Course, to Rome. Policemen and police officers have loaded the students who had assaulted two armored. The students have launch stones and bottles against the tear police enforcements that have answered with manganelli and. “He is like Genoa, we will violeremo the red zone”. Thus some students have said in make themselves concitate of the crashs to Via of the Course to Rome. The students from had little tried to overturn some armored.

BOLOGNA, CRASHS STUDENTI-POLIZIA IN STATION - Tafferugli between students, police to police officers in front of the station, where the corteo of manifesting that it had invaded a14 was directed after to have freed the freeway, making a new attempt of income in the port of call after that one, prevented with charges of the police enforcements, failed during the manifestation of 25 November. The incomes and the escapes of the station have been sluices for emergency reasons. To analogous Parma manifestation has interrupted the conventional line (the Tav has not been grazed) of the Bologna-Milan line for an analogous manifestation of the students.

VENICE, OCCUPIED BLOCKED STATION, TRAINS - the railroads of the railway station of Saint Venice Lucia have been blocked from the university students who are protesting against ddl the Gelmini. The circulation of the trains in the node of Venice, has confirmed the Railroads, is at the paralyzed moment.

MILAN: SLUICES AND REOPENED 3 STATIONS OF the METRO' - Three stations of the metropolitan have been sluices, and reopened after approximately an hour, to Milan, because of the student manifestation of protest against the Ddl Gelmini. It has been be a matter of the stations Duomo and Cordusio on Line 1, and Missori on Line 3, that they have been sluices to the public one from the 11,30 to the 12.50. In such stations the trains have not carried out the stopped ones. According to reported how much from the Atm, the closing has been demanded from the Police headquarters for reasons of public order. The customers, besides the uneasiness for the traffic and the average publics which had in surface, have thus found also the stopped incomes of the three crossed.

MANTOVA, STUDENTS OCCUPY PALACE DUCALE - a hundred of students of the advanced schools and the university this morning has occupied symbolically for three hours, the Ducale Palace. The boys have held an assembly and then they have left the monument. The manifestation has been pacific and the Digos is only taken part in order to remove some banners against the reform of the university and the cuts that the Municipality has programmed for the local athenaeum.

GENOA, STUDENTS THROW LETAME TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS - In the course of the manifestation in public square De Ferrari to Genoa, a group of students has broken part of the tensostruttura where issuing the television Class Cnbc was leading of the interviews within road a show with the Mount of the Paschi of Siena and has thrown of the buckets of letame liquid leans to the hosts. The two city council members to the economic Development of Province and Municipality of Genoa Paul Perfigli and Giovanni Vassallo (both PD) have been hit in full load from the excrements. Caught up partially also other hosts, between these representatives of Confesercenti, Cna, Confartigianato and Confindustria. The issuing one tv has been forced to suspend the direct one, and to interrupt the successive services, has explained the director of Class Cnbc Andrea Cabrini, than denunciation a bad management of the public square and the lack of emergency. The images than happened come now transmitted the channel to satellitare. To their irruption in the tensostruttura the students have strattonato a cameraman of the issuing one having screaied: “Not there é difference with those against which we protest”.

OCCUPIED REGGIO, CORTEO TO COSENZA - Continuous the occupation of the Magna classroom quistelli of the University of Reggio Calabria, that as soon as it has been caught up from hundred of medium students in corteo. To Cosenza the corteo of the students has left from little from the University of the Calabria, while to the 13 an assembly to the University of Catanzaro is convened.

The AQUILA: OCCUPIED FACCOLTA', DEFYING the SNOW - It continues, from yesterday, the occupation in three faculties of the university of the Aquila (Sciences, Engineering, Letters and Philosophy); while the students have elaborated and shared in the last hours a document in order to put in evidence the points of criticality of the Ddl Gelmini in argument to the Room. The platform, discussed in the scientific pole of Coppito, defines “unacceptable” the contents of the Ddl with regard to the governance of the athenaeums and contests the cuts, “the income of private in the Cda the academics” or the resource to the honor loan. The assemblies under consideration denounce also the difficult situation of the right in the abruzzese chief town, than alive anchor the difficulties of post the earthquake. The night has seen also cultural and recreational moments, with concerts in the faculty of Letters - in scene also the group rap Red Zone Krew -, jam session and laboratories in the others two faculty. Many the adhesions, in spite of the fallen snow plentiful stanotte and the rigid temperatures. Approximately 500 persons they are journeyed to Engineering, much to push the representatives to limit the accesses to the single students of the faculty. For the city of the Aquila, the occupation of university faculties represents an extraordinary event: the last episodes, with the exception of some sporadic case, go back ago to fifteen years.

NAPLES: LAUNCH BAGS REFUSALS ALSO AGAINST CENTER CAMPANIA REGION - a banner overhead to the corteo of the university ones that are parading for the roads of Naples é be dedicated to scomparso the director Mario Monicelli. “Mario Beloved we will make, it “it is revolution”, it has been written from manifesting. A new launch of bags of refusals has been carried out from the students. Previously the immondizia it had been thrown in front of the income of the palace of the Province of Naples. Now the launch has happened against the entrance of the center of the Campania Region, to Saint Palace Lucia.

TURIN: RAID STUDENTS IN OFFICES CENTER MIUR - Some tens of students who participated to the corteo against the Gelmini Reform for the ways of Turin are detached and have carried out a raid in the offices of the Ministry of the ' instruction university and search (Miur), in via Peter Micca. At first they have hit the portone of income of the building with an egg launch, they have smashed in then it and they are climbs to according to plan, where they have find the offices, and have smashed in an other portone breaking off a slab. They have only stopped in front of the glasses antibullet that protect the dependent of the ministry. Quickly after they are come down and they have been rejoined with the corteo. Sul place the agents of the Digos are present who are making assessments and surveyings.

GENOA: BREVIUMS CRASHS BETWEEN STUDENTS AND FORCES ORDER - Moments of tension, manganellate and breviums crashs with the police enforcements in front of the Prefettura of Genoa during the day of organized protest from the medium and university students. Manifesting has screaied “dimissioni”, “Berlusconi mafia” and other insults to the government in front of the prefettura and launch smoke-producing objects, eggs and against policemen and police officers in anti-riot estate. Some between the organizers have tried to bring back the calm, bloccando manifesting more stirred violently, while the police enforcements pulled some manganellata. Therefore the coming corteo from public square Loading has resumed the road going towards Corvetto public square. Between the slogan of the corteo “Against the crisis of the master class fight revolution” and “general strike”.

To Ancona the first night of occupation has raised some problem for the students of the University Polytechnic of the Marches that “garrison” the roof of the Faculty of Engineering. Because of the strong wind and of the nocturnal thunderstorm, one of stretches mounted on the roof - the militants of the Gulliver list report - has had a small yielding and has forced the students to go via in order repairing itself in the below classroom, already previously occupied, in order passing the night. But already from the 8 of the mattino, “gulliverini” they have begun to organize themselves in order to make forehead the maltempo and to organize in order various initiatives today, like the directed one of the sitting of the Room, fotobook of all students who come “makes us visit” and the opening of gazebo in order strengthening the garrison also in the moments of more intense rain or wind. The students have joined also to the initiative promoted from the investigators, that she previews a symbolic embrace to the palace of the Rettorato in Rome Public square.